ENGLISH LANGUAGE II

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Academic year
2015/2016
Teacher
ANA MARIA GABRIELA BEAVEN
Credits
12
Didactic period
Annualità Singola
SSD
L-LIN/12

Training objectives

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level B2.Consolidate and expand grammar and vocabulary learnt in the first year. Develop the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Students will be put in groups according to their first year English exam results.

Prerequisites

Students must pass English I in order to enroll in English II

Course programme

Grammar:
Revision of simple tenses (present past perfect)
Present perfect simple and continuous
Making comparisons (more, less, a lot, as..as, rather, a bit, no)
Articles(a, an, the)
Like, as, as if, though
Adverbs and Adjectives (quick, quickly)
Narrative tenses
Countable and uncountable nouns
Future forms
Indirect Speech
Reporting Verbs
Modals – Ability, certainty, possibility, obligation, necessity and permission
Passives
Relative Clauses
Conditionals
Gerunds and infinitives
Expressing hypothetical meanings (I wish..)
Present and past habit
Participle clauses (I used to…)
It is, there is
Have/get something done
So, such, too, enough, very
Emphasis on what (what is unusual about volcanoes..)
Ways of giving advice (advise, wise, attempt , remind, recommend, ought)
Phrasal verbs

Writing:
Academic Writing
Formal and Informal letters (correct language form, paragraphs)
Story writing (sequencing expressions)
Writing an article (paragraph organization)
Letter of complaint (contrasting)
Writing a report
Composition (plan, organize, linking expressions)
Letter of application

Translation from It to ENG

Didactic methods

Lessons 3+1 (SKILLS) times a week.
Language learning methods, use of authentic listening and reading material, exam techniques, regular progress tests, grammar practice, conversation classes, narrative composition, writing reviews, essays and letters.
Oral presentations: during the course students are required to give a 10 minute oral presentation on a topic related to the contemporary culture of an English-speaking country. This can form the basis of the final oral examination for Language students.

Learning assessment procedures

Final Exam: Written Exam without dictionary. Speaking session after passing the written and listening tests. A mock exam will be available at least one month before the official exam.
Exam Dates: June, July, September 2014, January 2015

Exam layout: Written Exam (3 hours)
Part 1: Reading comprehension answering 8 questions with multiple choice answers.
Part 2: Cloze Test, fill in the gap text.
Part 3: Translation.
Part 4: Gap Filling, using words given.
Part 5: Sentence transformation.
Part 6: Guided Writing (200 words)
Part 7: Writing, selecting one from a choice of three (200 words)
Listening:
Two listenings with 12 gap fills
Oral and mark registration.

Reference texts

Textbook for attending students
Empower B2 - Student's book with Online Assessment and Practice and Online Workbook Upper-Intermediate ISBN 978-1107468757 (€35)
2)Further reading, choose one of the following books:
- Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, retold) ISBN9780194786089
- Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 The Garden Party and Other Stories (Katherine Mansfield) ISBN 9780194793377
- Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick) ISBN: 9780194792226


Textbooks for non-attending students: GOLD FIRST 2015 EXAM MAXIMISER W/ONLINE AUDIO (W/KEY) 9781447907152
MYGRAMMARLAB B1/B2 WITH KEY+ ONLINE self study access (LONGMAN) ISBN 9781408299159
Further reading, choose one of the following books:
- Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, retold) ISBN9780194786089
- Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 The Garden Party and Other Stories (Katherine Mansfield) ISBN 9780194793377
- Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick) ISBN: 9780194792226

Other suggested books :
- MYGRAMMARLAB B1/B2 WITH KEY+ ONLINE self study access (LONGMAN) ISBN 9781408299159
- Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9th Edition Paperback (with iSpeaker & iWriter) ISBN: 9780194798792
- Oxford Learner's Thesaurus Paperback (with CD-Rom) ISBN 9780194752008